muscling the problems with the economy mean that many businesses here in greece has simply gone and joining the euro in many european crises many of the members with we could kind of nice it didn't mean european wages if one thought after another year of skeptics who wanted danger from the start they have become the unlikely heroes in this tale just who the hell do you think you people are you are very very dangerous people indeed your obsession with creating this euro state means that you're happy to destroy democracy you appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor or other told millions must suffer so that your euro dream could continue if you rob people of their identity if you rob them of their democracy but they are left with is nationalism and by those countries are now waking up to the reality of the nightmare that chap says the euro is a political prison for poor countries such as greece and spain and they need to be

liberated from their prison recreate their own currencies have devaluation make their exports cheaper make it easier for tourists to visit their countries and they'll get back on their feet greece ireland portugal italy spain it doesn't always continue to topple the year and it seems there will be no you happily ever after. i see. italian lawmakers maybe desperately swerving to avoid a crash like greece but as financial writer patrick young told us the government may find itself in conflict with a public that's dead set against cuts. there will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and others that greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike where is nuclei expected almost everybody is going to end up on strike and it's going to be absolutely chaotic the only way they can slip this through is perhaps because we do

have this long lead in time until the cuts really start to make an impact in two thousand and thirteen but i think the problem is in the meantime a large amount of the sort of the leftist opposition in italy for see the fact that silvio berlusconi due to many of the reasons most of which are outside of the direct school reason are well i mean he's a wounded animal at this point in time and in some ways i think that he's going to be finding it very difficult to hold his government together so there are big problems in western europe they haven to be and are definitely to the east and everyone martin fortunately expect further to the prize and because the academic the contingent seems to be spreading and we have new political leadership seeming to do with it. and in today's crossed up here with alan his guest discuss why the ease leadership is so adamant about saving the euro any cost here is some of what's coming up at seven thirty g.m.t. . lead greece go bankrupt it would be good for greece it would be good for the

europe it'd be good for the world if greece went bankrupt and rather they are to pay their bills or stop the lie then you would have everybody would know it's a strong sound currency based on a strong sound economy while i'm out and go bankrupt this isn't in our euro in america we've had states go away growing here and cities go bankrupt we've had counties go bankrupt it didn't in the united states and it didn't in the u.s. start i'll tell you why because of the four hundred billion dollars of debt that greece has fifty percent is held by german and french banks and those countries don't want to take a second in the financial markets is that simple. to. start . the sunken volga river cruise ship is due to be refloated within the next few days with special equipment already of the scene of last weekend's accident in tatarstan

the operation is due to begin later on friday severely overloaded vessel went down on sunday killing at least one hundred thirteen people including twenty seven children while over a dozen remain missing meanwhile two people lengths to the disaster have been arrested have a firm which friends of the vessel and the registrar who certified the ship are both suspected of violating safety regulations resulting in the deaths r t spoke to the captain of the vessel who saved about seventy six passengers and crew from the sancho cruiser. as we were nearing the site we began to figure out how many people there were in the water although it was hard to do because there was a lot of rubble floating around as well it was very hard to pick out individual people from among the floor debris some people were in dreadful condition mainly were injured oil all over their skin because when the ship sank the fuel oil came up to the surface and spread everywhere and covered the people that made the rescue even harder because the oil made the victims greasy and hard to get

a hold to pull them on board sheen children and the condition that was particularly hard breaking the full interview with the captain manning the country are considering a hero is on the line right now at r.t. dot com. the u.s. may want to be seen as the world's human rights advocate but at home with faces growing accusations of hypocrisy thousands of professional torturers have reportedly been trained over the past sixty years well the department of defense approval for found out it's ready to supply interrogators to neighboring countries . it's been thirty years since colombian soldiers kidnapped be starved and electroshock tech there are all for having a quote subversive book. but it's a memory he lives every day people have survived torture in cologne that's why i'm very lucky to be able to tell the story most people get tortured for. and then they

get shot and killed many have been disappear hector says the colombian soldiers who tortured him and later killed his brother. were trained right here on american soil at the school of the americas and for benning georgia army major joyce of blair was an instructor there i was very much in favor of the school of the americas during the cold war era but major blair says he was horrified with what his former students did with their anti-communist training in their own country classified. army schools. use words. force sas and they. commonly. call them weights for. graduates from the school of the americas have been implicated in massacres and torture throughout the hemisphere of the more than sixty thousand soldiers and police to have graduated ten thousand of them have been colombia has

been the largest user of the school of the americas i don't think it's an accident the. abuse of human rights in that was sometimes for the eighth amendment to the us constitution forbids torture and other forms of cruel and unusual punishment as does the geneva convention but they did happen there's no question that our country . tortured so taught others how to do it we also rendered people we also sent people to prisons in other countries where they were in fact torture there although congress demanded more oversight of military training programs and inter. investigation by the government accountability office showed that school of the americas manuals advocated using quote torture truth serum blackmail and execution the pentagon said it didn't know what the manuals contain because its staff advisors assigned to review them didn't speak spanish united nations special repertoire for torture one mendez himself a survivor of torture says a lack of transparency in the u.s.

led to further abuse in the eighty's unfortunately. the military aid and police aid was restored and after that it's been difficult to document to what extent that he includes teaching. techniques that are prohibited by law or by international law it's a legacy that sharply contrast with u.s. rhetoric about respect for human rights abroad torture survivors and religious leaders in washington d.c. have come together to demand a full commission of inquiry into what they describe as torture practiced or enabled by the united states including in its own prisons like one time obey and by the cia when president bush says that he waterboarding and he would do it again. and he said damn right that he had ordered it. so you know it's a very serious problem for the spirit soul of our country as the myth of how many prisoners were tortured by the united states are hard to find but survivors like hector's say the numbers don't tell the full story when someone gets torture not

only the person who. has to deal with the big wouldn't because of those on the torture it's also someone who has to be humanized themselves in order through the human eyes and all of human beings but a society that supports torture is going to pay a price a very big price as well killing forward our t. washington d.c. . as the u.s. expands a tent a terrorist network abroad there are now reports of secret prisons in somalia the sites officially belong to local security forces but are iran and paid for by the cia journalist jeremy scahill says hughes visits the prisons adding that america's mainstream media make it hard to report on what's really going on there. inside this dungeon prison there are no windows there is no sunlight there's a bedbug infestation according to prisoners who have been there mosquitoes all over the place the air is thick and disgusting some prisoners are said to be losing

their minds there are also reports from prisoners that there were very young boys inside of the prison some people have been held for eighteen months without charge without access to lawyers without access to the red cross in fact the red cross told me that they were not aware of the prison and that they have never been given access to it i know for a fact that journalists from several major american news outlets were aware of these facilities in mogadishu and it's for those networks to answer why they've never reported on it both c.n.n. and a.b.c. have allowed their facilities their media outlets to be used as conveyer belts for the spin of the cia and that's the job of the cia and they do it well but the job of major media outlets should not be to be a conveyor belt for the propaganda of u.s. intelligence agencies so i would leave those those questions for other media outlets as to why they're not reporting on this very serious life and death issue that has to do very much with the rule of law in this country and whether or not there's been any change when it comes to respect of international human rights laws

and standards in fifteen minutes ninety special report on the citizen crusaders against the global threat of atomic arms who hope their passion for peace can sound a wake up call for countries refusing to relinquish nuclear weapons. with the end of the war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially with nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. to use it as a threat. but you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all of the firepower of the second world war

this. is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. welcome back you're watching our t.v. rupert murdoch's disgraced media empire is now under of beyond best again over whether the voice mails of nine eleven victims were intercepted and news corp or a corporation's grip in britain is slipping fast abandoning a major t.v. takeover closing its leading newspaper and with murdoch summoned before parliament but while he fights to save his media titan the vultures are circling the ram it has been finding out. i bought every media outlet in town t.v. radio even the sky writers when hot imitates life the long running simpsons takes a shorter to its owner rupert murdoch aka montgomery burns in an episode broadcast

apparently coincidentally this week. but it's not the only old piece of timing in the extraordinary phone hacking case that seems to get more scandalous every day the list of something like four thousand names which the police have have since about two thousand and four two thousand and five and yet they promise facie evidence of criminal activity by these individuals and boy by the murdoch empire and yet they have not acted on it so why now just as the murdoch deal to take control of satellite t.v. giant b. sky b. sure to go ahead his rival the guardian newspaper releases catastrophic allegations of a moral journalists and their shady practices that when the deal collapses the times for example which currently loses money you could have transferred some of the

profits from. investing in the times and if you are for example the guardian or the daily telegraph you would welcome that it's not just rival newspapers who stand to gain from murdoch's empire crumbling the b.b.c. could retake t.v. territory lost to b. sky b. and the labor party which was wounded by years of relentless attacks by murdoch papers can finally take revenge but where will all this lead. now. in use. we should be. you know. that would suit the government just fine the british press is famous for

its shop teeth and no holds barred doggedness particularly where its own government is concerned prime minister david cameron has all but shut down the press complaints commission and already talks of statutory controls to govern print journalists back in springfield mr burns is has the townspeople put up their own newspaper and he's almost right with possible control of the media because of rupert murdoch he is beautiful man murdoch found as did mr buttons that you just can't buy all the newspapers those outside his control have been gunning for him think it is and this time they may have succeeded just as he gets set to consolidate control over a lot section of the e.u. case media markets the drugs being pulled out from under him and it's all over the hidden scandal now revealed that the police have known about it for you is your

average. artist been hearing how the culture of control by the murdoch media got out of hand brian drawled who runs a t.v. network for social activists says there are parallels with some nation's wider imperial ambitions. we can make an analogy. and international. between what happened in takeover so the united states and britain took over iraq and bring the power they employ they employ low with low slogans and i think the same thing has happened in the tabloids where we have commenced power in the against murdoch you know people. who they hire. they hire not meeting every journalist. but certainly if you look at whether it's on television where you've got a rouble which. will likely end in the night it states i don't know about britain.

it's a whole culture of our own control and deception or an agenda and gender i think it was the gender. both britain and the united states. have more video reaction and analysis on america's misery and here's what else we've lined out for you today. the name sports why did merkel would discover why the russian am so given the bond treatment on the billboards in moscow also online the creature is a price list as a pair of harry and a monkey skate from a siberian circus seemingly because the bad summer weather is getting them down more on the fear of furry friends fostering dot com.

president obama has appealed to an on yielding congress to lift the country's debt ceiling as negotiations over the budget stretch on the deadlock has already sparked fears that america's traditional aaa credit score may be under threat but investment alice max wolff tells r t that washington's addition to solving debt problems was more debt means there is little chance of either side offering a solution. america's been running on debt for years this is a disaster in the making and i would liken this situation here to a cancerous tumor inside a body there's no better time to cut the cancerous tumor out as quickly as you possibly can that said the u.s. government has been running on debt for many many years and we've been raising the budget the total debt ceiling for many many years as a budget issue and we've successfully had deals struck it has become the political norm in the united states that whatever party is in the white house has to ask to

raise the debt ceiling it's always been raised in the past the party that's not in the white house that's out of power screams and yells for three or four days at most usually about how the government spending too much and should live within its means the debt ceiling demand gets raised and it's business as usual that's been the case for thirty years so we have one side in the congress right now that's decided no increase in revenue is acceptable other side has decided that not raising revenue is unacceptable and so we've reached an embarrassing impasse that has dragged on for weeks longer than it should and is the reason that we're going to see the growing chorus of foreign and domestic voices urging congress and the white house to stop riling already strained global markets with a political impasse. some of the other world news now the paragon has admitted suffering one of its largest ever happen or attacks will sauza as of sensitive to fans file still with deputy defense secretary william lynn says all the data was taken in a single intrusion in march officials blame an unspecified foreign government and

comes after revealing a new internet strategy which treats cyberspace as operational terrain like land air and sea. thousands of pro-government libyans have rallied in a town west of tripoli to express support for the embattled colonel gadhafi and demanded that nato stops its military campaign else we're going to levy a content group of nato nations arab countries and other states is meeting in turkey to find a political solution to the five months long conflict. mexico's biggest ever of our a lot of plantation has been discovered by authorities two hundred fifty kilometers south of the us border it covers one hundred twenty years and is watered by an advanced irrigation system last year investigators found a tunnel running from mexico to the u.s. that was fitted that it out was lighting ventilation at a railway to transport drugs covered forty tons of marijuana.

all right it brings us up to date and change of pace now we're taking a look at what's happening the world of business with. a bit slow this morning russia's burbank is finalizing the agreement to acquire the eastern european unit of bank international a deal could be the biggest acquisition by the russians and outside the former soviet union and expected to be closed by the end of the year sources close to the talks is burbank could pay up to one billion dollars for the. gold price is a record high there as investors look for a safe haven from the storm brewing in the world's biggest economies now it's coming down just a notch at the moment gold is seen as a traditional store of value and it's being driven by concerns over u.s. debt situation and the prospect the federal reserve may print even more greenbacks man of the. capital believes there is no limit to the current rally it did look

like a few weeks ago that the price of gold was going to come in lower but in starting to see increased eurozone concerns increased inflationary concerns the prospect of more quantitative easing more stimulus spending from the from the federal reserve we thought that that finished at the end of june now in the last couple of days or so there's an increased likelihood that the federal reserve could start to print more money and that is going to go into areas that's going to go to gold and into equities are most likely gold at the moment so obviously sixteen hundred dollars would be an obvious level for gold to hit and then you start to see some profit being taken off the table but then you could push through that and there's no ceiling you could carry on going to seven hundred eighteen hundred dollars. figure of the markets now oil is flattened makes the number twenty trading investors suspect the rescue consumption may climb that's a reports that may show industrial production increase in june and consumer

confidence improved. in asia stock markets are mixed pools in tokyo tech stocks in exporters are among beginners casio and sony are adding around one percent yahoo japan is gaining almost two percent hang seng however it is trading quarter of a percent down. as one hour left before the opening of trading in russia's take a look at the closing picture for firstly there it is the out years at a point two percent my six point one percent on a bargain hunting despite concerns over debt in europe and the us. x. interest and call for a world said capital expects the markets and russia to end the week as they began characterized by low volumes them high ball that. believes that on friday nothing would change except the fact that it's friday people are generally more cautious on friday to take long position was probably the market will be even through the pressure but again we think over the next few weeks we'll stay in pretty narrow

trading range. for it now will be. the statements of the us. political and economic establishment regarding the the possibility of the quantity freezing and be regarding the station with the years that. business out see will be back next hour like every hour around fifty minutes time headlines the next.

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find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on our. welcome back to watching hockey live from moscow here's a look at the top stories the e.u. scrambles to cut spending as a debt hole sweeping the blocks threatens to sink italy is the greatest test yet for them leadership's efforts to keep the wavering currency alive. verdicts misery mounts the f.b.i. looks into whether a nine eleven victims phones were hacked while the fallout of these empires british armed forces and out of a multi-billion dollar t.v. takeover. and america's two faced torture tactics rising uproar over the u.s. training at a sporting brutal interrogators while breaching human rights to the rest of the world. the headlines next our special report on those who've seen the

dangers of nuclear weapons firsthand and are taking it upon themselves to open the world's eyes. the nuclear age is the first sixty years oh. i can describe exactly how an underground test was. there were three two one zero almost you couldn't hear anything about there was no noise at all but the ground lifted up. we live under the threat of increasingly sophisticated weapons. in two thousand one hundred eighty eight states parties to the nonproliferation treaty signed on to a statement providing for an unequivocal undertaking to the total elimination of nuclear weapons it has been set back by principally the united states but not alone russia france china the u.k. all have their share responsibility. disarmament agreements are not being honored.

what is happening now it is that their role is in town countries are able to write a draft shod over international law because there isn't sufficient body of protest from within that country ordering them to these basic principles. thanks polynesian for thrust into the midst of the nuclear tests. and when we accompanied them to ground zero with guns pointed ready to fire who were we going to fire at i wonder the issue clearly crabs. yep we're going to be there was a russian or american invasion why don't know with the end of the cold war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared so a lot of the people who were activist under saddam and issues moved their activism to the environment or fighting globalization.